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Looming Freight Rail Strike, McMullin’s Abortion Fraud, White House Border Blame

September 14, 2022 by GregC

Listen to “Looming Freight Rail Strike, McMullin’s Abortion Fraud, White House Border Blame” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they serve up one bad martini and two crazy ones. First, Jim lays out the details of the looming freight rail strike or lockout that could do serious damage to our economy and why there are several indicators that there won’t be a deal by Friday. They also hammer Never Trump Utah “independent” Senate candidate Evan McMullin who ran for president in 2016 vowing to end Roe v. Wade and is now decrying the Supreme Court ruling and vowing to restore abortion if elected. And they roll their eyes as White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says it is Republicans’ fault that the border is a mess.

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Filed Under: Abortion, congress, Elections, Foreign Policy, History, Humor, Immigration, Journalism, Labor, News & Politics Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, abortion, Biden, border, Evan McMullin, immigration, Karine Jean-Pierre, Mike Lee, railroad, Strike, Utah

Youngkin Starts Strong, FBI Fuzzy on Hostage Crisis Motive, Vaccine Mandate Madness in Utah

January 17, 2022 by GregC

Listen to “Youngkin Starts Strong, FBI Fuzzy on Hostage Crisis Motive, Vaccine Mandate Madness in Utah” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome new Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and applaud him following up on his campaign promises on his very first day. They also credit the FBI for a successful resolution to the hostage crisis at a Texas synagogue on Saturday but then fume as the bureau, the media, and the president claim the motive for the incident is a mystery. And they hammer the Salt Lake Tribune for suggesting the national guard should be called in to make sure the unvaccinated never leave their homes.

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Filed Under: COVID-19, Economy, Elections, FBI, History, Humor, Islamic Terrorism, Israel, Journalism, News & Politics, Police, Terrorism, Vaccine Mandates Tagged With: FBI, masks, motive, schools, synagogue, Three Martini Lunch, Tribune, Utah, vaccines, Youngkin

Hatch Hangs it Up, Trump’s Button Measuring, Bannon Turns on Trump

January 3, 2018 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the retirement of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and give him credit for the things he’s done well, and while they like Mitt Romney, they wonder if Utah is missing out on a younger and more conservative replacement for Hatch.  They also slam President Trump for his childish tweet about having a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong-Un.  And they react to Steve Bannon unloading on his former White House rivals and accusing Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort of treason.

Update:  Since this recording, Trump has responded to Bannon.  “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency.  When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” reads part of the statement.  Trump also accuses Bannon of leaking extensively during his time in office.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Kim Jong-Un, Mitt Romney, National Review, nuclear button, Orrin Hatch, Paul Manafort, President Trump, Steve Bannon, Three Martini Lunch, Utah

Trump Slashes Size of Two Major National Monuments

December 4, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/12-4-cohen-BLOG.mp3

President Trump announced Monday he was significantly reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah, infuriating environmentalists and leaving his supporters wanting the president to do the same in many other parts of the country.

Speaking in Utah, Trump announced he was reducing the monument designation at Bears Ears National Monument from 1.3 million acres to 220,000.  He also reduced the monument footprint at the Grand Staircase-Escalante from 1.9 million acres to roughly one million.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is pushing for a very aggressive approach to rolling back national monument designations.  Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen is gratified Trump went further than Interior Secrertary Ryan Zinke originally recommended.

“He has shoved that aside and has reduced the size of the two monuments in Utah far beyond that which Zinke originally proposed.  I think that’s an important first step,” said Cohen.

“This is just a first step.  There are other national monuments that were created in recent years, mostly by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and particularly Obama, that are gigantic national monuments,” said Cohen.

Clinton designated the Grand Staircase-Escalante monument in 1996 and Obama signed off on Bears Ears shortly before leaving office.

Cohen says the federal government grabs land with little to no regard to the impact on the local community.

“They were created with precious little, if any, input from local effected communities and were created for the sole purpose of putting these lands completely off limits to any economic use whatsoever, to the detriment of the local communities,” said Cohen.

Democrats and environmental activists are outraged by Trump’s decision, a develop Cohen says was entirely predictable and proves Trump is making the right choice.  Cohen says the aggressive liberal use of the monument designation has little to do with the stated purpose of protecting sacred American Indian lands.

He says the real goal is to squelch American energy production.

“Many of these lands do in fact contain very valuable natural resources, which is precisely why the Clinton administration and the Obama administration created them in the first place.  The goal was to create an artificial shortage of natural resources and to limit Americans’ access to their own very abundant natural resources,” said Cohen.

 

Not only that, Cohen says the use of national monument designations is illegal.  He says the 1906 Antiquities Act, which gives the president designation powers, specifically instructs that the smallest parcel of land be cordoned off to protect Indian sites.

In addition, he says a 1963 law specifically gives Congress the power to add federal wilderness lands, but Democrats and environmentalists are using the Antiquities Act as a run-around.

“The environmentalists, working hand-in-glove with the Clinton administration and the Obama administration, found a way of using the Antiquities Act and turning it on its head,” said Cohen.

“It is a de facto wilderness designation, circumventing Congress in the process, and also circumventing the will of local communities, who are rarely consulted about any of this,” said Cohen.

Trump’s critics also claim his actions are unprecedented, that no president has ever rolled back the monument designations of a predecessor.  Cohen says that’s simply wrong.

‘There’s nothing unprecedented about a president shrinking national monuments.  It has happened 18 times before,” said Cohen, who says the federal government already owns 30-35 percent of all land in the U.S., including 83 percent of Nevada and 63 percent in both Idaho and Utah.

Cohen says he expects more announcements like this from Trump in the days to come.

“I sincerely hope, and I have reason to believe, that other actions will be taken in the not-too-distant future, meaning in the next few weeks,” said Cohen.  “I believe what we saw today will be the first of several steps the Trump administration will do in ending the abuse of the Antiquities Act,” said Cohen.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: federal lands, national monuments, natural resources, news, President Trump, Utah

Three Martini Lunch 10/26/16

October 26, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-10-26-16.mp3

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America enjoy WikiLeaks expose the Democratic panic after Pres. Obama publicly said he only learned of Hillary Clinton’s email server through the media.  They also unload on both Megyn Kelly and Newt Gingrich for their exhausting and devolving debate on Tuesday night.  And they shake their heads as Mike Pence is sent to Utah to shore up that state for the GOP ticket.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Hillary, Kelly, Martini, National, Newt, obama, Review, server, Trump, Utah, Wikileaks

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